So, I really did not want to have to make this notice, however, it has been too long with no updates. First, I would like to say that I love this story and I can see the potential it has, however, I feel as if I have just taken a bite too big for me to chew as my first serious fiction. This fiction is inspired off of a few eastern novels I read a year ago, I call them sandbox novels (I don't know the actual term for the genre), with my favorite being a novel called Shepharding Humanity. After spending a lot of effort trying to find english novels of a similiar genre on any site, I finally gave up and decided to write one myself as I had been sort of trying to find something to seriously write for a long time before that already. However, as I have mentioned before, this is my first fiction and I really underestimated the scale which, when looking at it, makes me feel overwhelmed. From the different worlds, cultures, characters, power systems, developing the real world, developing the main character(s), etc. I just haven't planned it out enough to where I can just go and write a new chapter like nothing for a story like this. I would like to say this here and now, but from writing the first chapter all the way to chapter 12... I haven't really planned anything. I have ideas for how to develop the story, but I haven't actually planned or developed much.

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So, on to the main problem is that I have sort of not only written myself into a corner (Mainly the power system(s), but I do have a few ideas rolling around), but every time I open a chapter and try to write in it, it just feels like a slog because I just don't know what to write (Yes, I have arcs and stuff loosely planned, but it is a matter of translating what I want to write into actual words) and it has been ongoing for the last 2 months. So, after much deliberation, I have decided that I will keep this novel on the dreaded hiatus until I feel confident enough to continue it or actually rewrite it.

This novel, though, has been holding me back as whenever I try to brainstorm new ideas for a fiction, my mind just keeps going back to this, but as said before, this novel is just too big of a bite for me right now. So, I do not have any plans on abandoning it, but I will just sort of let it sit in the background until I, A: have dissolved it into smaller, more digestible pieces (I don't really know how to do this yet), or B: Feel confident enough on tackling the novel again and seeing how it goes from there. In the meantime, though, I will work on other stories and whenever I feel like actually putting one out for people to see, it does not mean that I have totally forgotten about this fic, I just want a lil' more practice. :)